[Drwurm]

I saw a lot of impeding today, in hybrid and in tele. I saw robots blatantly
tipped, some while hurdling.

I saw very little in the way of penalties for the teams attempting these, and
no yellow cards. The yellow cards that were handed out seemed very trivial.

That said, this is week one. Perhaps now that there have been some
regionals, the refs at the others will get a feeling for what the real problems
are. This is a tough game to ref, considering in previous years, defense such
as this has been a viable strategy. The definition for impeding is a tough nut
to crack.

Even cracking down on hybrid mode impeding could get tricky. If a team
drives forward at 1ft/s could they claim to have just been in the wrong place
at the wrong time, and it was an "accident" when they blocked the path? I
would hope that no teams stoop to this level, but it's bound to happen some
time. (Hopefully they wouldn't also claim that they were rammed during the
same maneuver....)